poster just joined, that was his first post, and he is already banned. HARSH!

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386 somehwhat machine... was 7 and kinda didnt knew anything about it,then a
P1 150MHZ which i had till i got a
1800+ which i had for 2 years until i changed to an
xp 3200+, which i kept until i got me an
athlon 64 x2 4400+, which i had for one year, until i broke the bare die with a heavy,unstraight screwed WB, then i got a
5000+, which i had for half a year, until i got me a PH2 955... after that i didnt upgraded the main proc, but bought/got gifted procs for additional rigs,within about 1,5 years:
Q9550
939 X2 64 3800+
939 X2 64 4200+
e2140
e6750
X2 64 5600+ Windsor
heaps of old P4s

its economically gruesome, but people that know how to built rigs like me, would be without work, if everyone would built their rigs themselves

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I can build my own rigs, I can even write my own code. Sometimes a prebuilt is just cheaper for what I need. alot of times I buy used prebuilts for pennies and put them into office duty around my bussiness. Its just economical. My current home rig is pretty nice. 1090t thuban, am3 board, 5770 gpu "getting upgraded to 6990/580 still waiting on benchmakrs but I know how thats comming out" The wife has a nicely built quad core pehon 9550 at 3ghz.

its not that I can't, its that sometimes its just easier to buy a prebuilt.

Limiting myself strictly to x86 and x64 stuff, things that I actually purchased, (as oppossed to "inheriting"), and they are not necessarily listed in order of appearance. (As you might imagine, quite a bit of this stuff was/is used concurrently. I have a lot of PCs around the house.) And, I'm sure I'm overlooking or forgetting a few. Can't imagine why that would happen...

* = still in use.
(I have a LAN at home and many of these rigs are still used to run some older games. Others support old operating systems, such as Win95 and 98SE, OS/2, and, yes, even DOS. Some are just, well... ...old friends.)

Limiting myself strictly to x86 and x64 stuff, things that I actually purchased, (as oppossed to "inheriting"), and they are not necessarily listed in order of appearance. (As you might imagine, quite a bit of this stuff was/is used concurrently. I have a lot of PCs around the house.) And, I'm sure I'm overlooking or forgetting a few. Can't imagine why that would happen...

* = still in use.
(I have a LAN at home and many of these rigs are still used to run some older games. Others support old operating systems, such as Win95 and 98SE, OS/2, and, yes, even DOS. Some are just, well... ...old friends.)

Kind of a big pause in here where I didn't have a regular computer, but used my brother's PCs on occasion, and my mum's when I was at her house - all very unimpressive and not memorable until I got back into PCs in 2005:

I can build my own rigs, I can even write my own code. Sometimes a prebuilt is just cheaper for what I need. alot of times I buy used prebuilts for pennies and put them into office duty around my bussiness. Its just economical. My current home rig is pretty nice. 1090t thuban, am3 board, 5770 gpu "getting upgraded to 6990/580 still waiting on benchmakrs but I know how thats comming out" The wife has a nicely built quad core pehon 9550 at 3ghz.

its not that I can't, its that sometimes its just easier to buy a prebuilt.

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true, but also, sometimes you just want to know you have done something yourself